Re: [openstack-dev] [glance] Periodically checking Glance image files

2016-09-14 Thread Sergio A. de Carvalho Jr.
I think a proactive background check service could be useful in some cases but of course it'd have to be optional and configurable to allow operators to tune the trade-off between the effort required to check all images versus the risk of hitting a rogue file. Letting the backend report health bac

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance] Periodically checking Glance image files

2016-09-13 Thread Avishay Traeger
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 7:16 AM, Nikhil Komawar wrote: > Firstly, I'd like to mention that Glance is built-in (and if deployed > correctly) is self-resilient in ensuring that you do NOT need an audit > of such files. In fact, if any operator (particularly large scale > operator) ne

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance] Periodically checking Glance image files

2016-09-12 Thread Nikhil Komawar
Hey Sergio, Glad to know that you're not having any feature related issues (to me this is a good sign). Based on your answers, it makes sense to require a reliability solution for backend data (or some sort of health monitoring for the user data). So, I wonder what your thoughts are for such an

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance] Periodically checking Glance image files

2016-09-12 Thread Sergio A. de Carvalho Jr.
Hi Nikhil, Thanks so much for you response. 1) No, this is a private cloud. 2) Glance v1 (this problem has manifested itself in one of our oldest deployments, which is running Icehouse). 3) No, location is not exposed. 4) Glance is setup with the filesystem backend drive, using a Gluster volume m

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance] Periodically checking Glance image files

2016-09-12 Thread Nikhil Komawar
Hi Sergio, Thanks for reaching out. And this is an excellent question. Firstly, I'd like to mention that Glance is built-in (and if deployed correctly) is self-resilient in ensuring that you do NOT need an audit of such files. In fact, if any operator (particularly large scale operator) needs su